Ales Bialiatski been held without trial since he was arrested during anti-government protests in 2021.
Tag: Belarus
Belarus summoned the Ukrainian ambassador, after saying it shot down an air defence missile.
Kyiv fears a fresh Russian assault is on the horizon after President Putin travelled to Minsk.
Russia is sending thousands more troops to Belarus. Is the country going to join the war in Ukraine?
The peace prize goes to Ales Bialiatsky, Russia’s Memorial and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.
Athletes from Russia and Belarus will compete as neutrals at the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing.
The decision fuels renewed fears that Russia plans to invade Ukraine, despite denials from Moscow.
One family returns to the same camp they had lived in for seven years before trying to reach Europe.
In an exclusive interview, President Lukashenko tells the BBC it’s “absolutely possible” his forces helped migrants cross into Poland.
About 1,000 migrants are offered shelter from the cold after camping at the Belarus-Poland border.
Poland’s defence ministry says migrants were throwing stones and trying to destroy a border fence.
The crisis intensifies as hundreds more migrants arrive at the border with Poland.
As the Belarus crisis deepens, volunteers have been offering aid in Poland’s forbidden forests.
Russia’s leader says Belarus should not cut gas supplies to Europe over the migrant row with Poland.
Journalists and aid workers are kept away from the bleak spectacle of migrants on the Polish border.
Turkey has stopped all citizens from Iraq, Syria and Yemen from flying from Turkey to Belarus.
The EU is reportedly preparing fresh sanctions over an escalating migrant crisis at Belarus’s border.
The migrant crisis along the EU’s borders is the result of increasing numbers arriving in Belarus by air.
Poland’s prime minister says Belarus is flying in migrants and sending them to the border.
Thousands of migrants are at the Belarus-Poland border, camping in cold and dangerous conditions.
Poland says it has stopped attempts by the large group to enter the country from Belarus.
Poland has accused Belarus of encouraging people to enter the country illegally.
The wall to curb a wave of migrants entering from Belarus has been approved by Poland’s parliament.
Maria Kolesnikova calls the case against her “absurd” in her first interview since her conviction.
The BBC finds stranded migrants facing sub-zero temperatures amid a row between Poland and Belarus.
Maria Kolesnikova receives 11 years in jail and Maxim Znak 10 on charges of trying to seize power.
Poland and its EU allies have accused Belarus of weaponising migrants in response to sanctions.
Video shows 12 Belarusian officers in riot gear as migrants scramble towards Lithuanian territory.
Over 4,000 people are reported to have crossed in Lithuania in recent months.
Tensions are running high with Belarus after a surge of non-EU migrants into Lithuania.